Prokaryotic evolution in light of gene transfer.

By J. Peter Gogarten, W. Ford Doolittle, Jeffrey G. Lawrence. Molecular biology and evolution, 2002

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The ecological coherence of high bacterial taxonomic ranks (2010, background): “It has also been suggested that a microbial niche can be changed after a single HGT even”
A comprehensive evolutionary classification of proteins encoded in complete eukaryotic genomes (2004, background): “The possibility of substantial HGT between major lineages of eukaryotes can apparently be safely disregarded, providing for an unambiguous most parsimonious scenario that includes only gene loss and emergence of new genes as elementary events.”
Re-evaluating prokaryotic species (2005, background): “Most importantly, despite the perceived reliability of 16S rRNA gene sequence as a phylogenetic marker, any single measure of sequence similarity is subject both to simple stochastic variation and to the influence of recombination or horizontal gene transfe”
Horizontal gene transfer, genome innovation and evolution (2005, background): “It now appears that all functional categories of genes are susceptible to HGT, even rRNA operon”
Size doesn’t matter: towards a more inclusive philosophy of biology (2007, background): “Pragmatists, generally more convinced of the extent and implications of gene exchange, use the word ‘species’ as a purely practical term that means ‘assemblages of related organisms for which microbiologists have attached specific names rather than natural kinds’ (Gogarten et al. 2002).”
Mobile genetic elements: the agents of open source evolution (2005, background): “Moreover, the promiscuous recombination capabilities of MGEs allow them to transfer many accessory genes of known and unknown function to chromosome”
Comparative genomics, minimal gene-sets and the last universal common ancestor (2003, background): “Both types of data are affected markedly by the evolutionary processes of lineage-specific gene loss and horizontal gene-transfer (HGT”
Score-based prediction of genomic islands in prokaryotic genomes using hidden Markov models (2006, background): “This phenomenon is frequent among microbes and is considered a means of rapid adaptation to changing environmental demands [1].”
Biodiversity of Vibrios (2004, background): “Several researchers have claimed that this process can even make the delineation of bacterial species difficult (141, 226).”
Ecological and evolutionary forces shaping microbial diversity in the human intestine. (2006, positive): “Moreover, these coevolved, cooperative roles were likely traits of early colonists in mammalian gut evolution and are encoded by a genomic repertoire that is too large and eclectic to be acquired and assembled solely by stochastic processes such as LGT. Cooperation It remains unclear how much tradit”
Ecology drives a global network of gene exchange connecting the human microbiome (2011, background): “Many previous efforts to explore these forces have highlighted the relationship between phylogeny and HG”
The Logic of Chance: The Nature and Origin of Biological Evolution (2011, background): “The radical view counters that massive HGT obliterates the very distinction between the vertical and horizontal routes of genetic information transmission, so the TOL concept should be abandoned in favor of a (broadly defined) network representation of evolution (Doolittle and Bapteste, 2007; Gogart”